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Shengwei An

13 accepted papers

2025

Profiler: Black-box AI-generated Text Origin Detection via Context-aware Inference Pattern Analysis

EMNLP 2025

With the increasing capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), the proliferation of AI-generated texts has become a serious concern. Given the diverse range of organizations providing LLMs, it is crucial for governments and third-party entities to identify the origin LLM of a given AI-generated t

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Temporal Logic-Based Multi-Vehicle Backdoor Attacks against Offline RL Agents in End-to-end Autonomous Driving

NeurIPS 2025poster

Assessing the safety of autonomous driving (AD) systems against security threats, particularly backdoor attacks, is a stepping stone for real-world deployment. However, existing works mainly focus on pixel-level triggers which are impractical to deploy in the real world. We address this gap by intro…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Elijah: Eliminating Backdoors Injected in Diffusion Models via Distribution Shift

AAAI 2024technical

Diffusion models (DM) have become state-of-the-art generative models because of their capability of generating high-quality images from noises without adversarial training. However, they are vulnerable to backdoor attacks as reported by recent studies. When a data input (e.g., some Gaussian noise)…

2024

Inspecting Prediction Confidence for Detecting Black-Box Backdoor Attacks

AAAI 2024technical

Backdoor attacks have been shown to be a serious security threat against deep learning models, and various defenses have been proposed to detect whether a model is backdoored or not. However, as indicated by a recent black-box attack, existing defenses can be easily bypassed by implanting the backdo…

Cited by 10SourcePDFScholar
2024

LOTUS: Evasive and Resilient Backdoor Attacks through Sub-Partitioning

CVPR 2024poster

Backdoor attack poses a significant security threat to Deep Learning applications. Existing attacks are often not evasive to established backdoor detection techniques. This susceptibility primarily stems from the fact that these attacks typically leverage a universal trigger pattern or transformatio…

2024

UNIT: Backdoor Mitigation via Automated Neural Distribution Tightening

ECCV 2024poster

"Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated effectiveness in various fields. However, DNNs are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, which inject a unique pattern, called trigger, into the input to cause misclassification to an attack-chosen target label. While existing works have proposed various meth…

2023

Django: Detecting Trojans in Object Detection Models via Gaussian Focus Calibration

NeurIPS 2023poster

Object detection models are vulnerable to backdoor or trojan attacks, where an attacker can inject malicious triggers into the model, leading to altered behavior during inference. As a defense mechanism, trigger inversion leverages optimization to reverse-engineer triggers and identify compromised m…

2023

FLIP: A Provable Defense Framework for Backdoor Mitigation in Federated Learning

ICLR 2023poster

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables different parties to train a model together for high quality and strong privacy protection. In this scenario, individual participants may get compromised and perform backdoor attacks by poisoning the data (or gradients). Existin…

2023

MEDIC: Remove Model Backdoors via Importance Driven Cloning

CVPR 2023poster

We develop a novel method to remove injected backdoors in deep learning models. It works by cloning the benign behaviors of a trojaned model to a new model of the same structure. It trains the clone model from scratch on a very small subset of samples and aims to minimize a cloning loss that denotes…

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2022

An Invisible Black-Box Backdoor Attack through Frequency Domain

ECCV 2022poster

"Backdoor attacks have been shown to be a serious threat against deep learning systems such as biometric authentication and autonomous driving. An effective backdoor attack could enforce the model misbehave under certain predefined conditions, i.e., triggers, but behave normally otherwise. The trigg…

2022

Better Trigger Inversion Optimization in Backdoor Scanning

CVPR 2022oral

Backdoor attacks aim to cause misclassification of a subject model by stamping a trigger to inputs. Backdoors could be injected through malicious training and naturally exist. Deriving backdoor trigger for a subject model is critical to both attack and defense. A popular trigger inversion method is…

Cited by 104PDFScholar
2022

Constrained Optimization with Dynamic Bound-scaling for Effective NLP Backdoor Defense

ICML 2022spotlight

Modern language models are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. An injected malicious token sequence (i.e., a trigger) can cause the compromised model to misbehave, raising security concerns. Trigger inversion is a widely-used technique for scanning backdoors in vision models. It can- not be directly app…

2021

Backdoor Scanning for Deep Neural Networks through K-Arm Optimization

ICML 2021spotlight

Back-door attack poses a severe threat to deep learning systems. It injects hidden malicious behaviors to a model such that any input stamped with a special pattern can trigger such behaviors. Detecting back-door is hence of pressing need. Many existing defense techniques use optimization to generat…